From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T03:12:41+09:00
Subject: Re: string method that takes in a regex

Hi --

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Parv G. wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there a string method that takes in a regular expression AND returns
> a boolean value?
>
> Looking at the documentation i can't find a method that meets my
> requirements (very surprising).

I think the idea is that as long as matching methods return either
something or nil, you can always use them in conditionals, so they
might as well return something that might have some other use.


David

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